Q&A Is therapy just a chat?
"If you discount the years of training, continued education, emotional investment, attention to detail, mastery of multiple theories and...
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- Mar 16
- 2 min
Q&A When is it necessary to seek help with severe anxiety?
"Lately, I can feel it in my knuckles, fingers and chest. I’ve had heart palpitations on and off for the past four days and I don’t have...
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- Feb 10
- 2 min
Embodiment: The body as a gateway to presence
Our journey through life is encoded in our bodies just as the rings of a tree encode the life-story of that tree. If we grow up in an...
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- Feb 10
- 1 min
The reality of the symbol
The detachment of libido from the object [its concentration on the symbol] transfers it into the subject, where it activates the images...
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- Feb 10
- 1 min
Archetypal images: the anima
A psychological reading of the dominant archetypal images reveals a continuous series of psychological transformations, depicting the...
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- Feb 10
- 2 min
Experiencing the conflict of opposites
The transcendent function is not something one does oneself; it comes rather from experiencing the conflict of opposites. - C.G. Jung,...
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- Feb 10
- 1 min
Consciousness & the unconscious
The unconscious is not just a container filled with various things, but a living being with a meaning and a purpose in itself. It is...
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- Feb 10
- 2 min
The inner journey: beginning analysis
One may begin analysis with the idea that conflict can be avoided and inner wounds can be healed. Analysis instead helps the person to...
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- Feb 10
- 2 min
Integrity in depth
When we allow ourselves to be irritated out of our wits by something, let us not assume that the cause of our irritation lies simply and...
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- Feb 10
- 1 min
The healing value of the cantering process
The self is the principle and archetype of orientation and meaning. Therein lies its healing function. For me, this insight signified an...
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- Feb 2
- 8 min
Resources: The compassionate mind
'Wise and perceptive. [It] teaches self-compassion and the consolations of kindness. I recommend it.' SALLY BRAMPTON, author of Shoot the...
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- Feb 2
- 1 min
Participation mystique
Every entrance into an archetypal fields leads to an 'abaissement du niveau mental,' a diminution of consciousness, an intensification of...
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- Feb 2
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Projections…
If the individuality is unconscious, there is no psychological individual but merely a collective psychology of consciousness. The...
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- Feb 1
- 2 min
The inferior function
Any attempt to equalize the one-sided differentiation of the man of our times has to reckon very seriously with an acceptance of the...
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- Feb 1
- 2 min
Anima/Animus
"The foundation of man's search for the anima is to find his own inherited image of the inner woman and the function of Eros or...
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- Jan 30
- 2 min
Dispelling the ghosts of our parents
The psyche that has lived all its life in fear of not being nourished by the mother, or of being snuffed out by the father – in other...
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- Jan 30
- 4 min
Anima & animus in fairy tales
ln many instances, to escape the unconscious in a certain aspect is just as heroic a deed as conquering the dragon. It is quite difficult...
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- Jan 30
- 2 min
The inner field of the ‘I’
The inner field of the I, which we can imagine as a hollow sphere, is something plastic in which experiences have imprinted themselves,...
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- Jan 30
- 2 min
A life of two halves…
One might characterize the whole first half of life as a gigantic mistake, as necessary as it is unavoidable. The task of the second half...
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- Jan 30
- 1 min
We are not only that which we imagine ourselves to be
We are not only that which we imagine ourselves to be—we are also the effect that we have on other people. Source - Carl Jung, Ignatius...
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